Monday, 24 October 2016

Gunmen kill Pakistani intelligence officer, ISIS claim attack

Gunmen kill Pakistani intelligence officer, ISIS claim attack

Peshawar: An intelligence officer was on Monday
shot dead by two motorcycle-borne gunmen in restive northwest Pakistan,
in an attack claimed by the ISIS terror group.
Akbar Ali, a sub-inspector with the police intelligence wing, was on
his way to work and waiting at a bus stop near his home when the killers
riding bike opened fire at him in Charsadda district, some 30 km from
Peshawar, police said.

The body of the 43-year-old officer was shifted to= district
headquarter hospital in Charsadda, where doctors carried out an autopsy.
He was hit by four bullets from the front and died on the spot, doctors
said. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.

In a short statement posted on Amaq, its affiliated news agency, the
group said its "fighters have killed a Pakistan intelligence agent in
the Sardaryab region... of Pakistan."
Pakistan military last month admitted that the ISIS had a presence in
the country but said the plans by the dreaded group to target important
personalities by and attempts to organise itself have been thwarted.

"Daesh tried to make an ingress into Pakistan, but the core of its
group have now been apprehended," Army spokesperson Lt Gen Asim Bajwa
had said, using an alternate acronym for the ISIS. Bajwa said the threat of ISIS is now from Afghanistan where it is
present in at least three border provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar and
Khost.